December 08, 2007
Stockhausen RIP
The musician and composer Karlheinz Stockhausen died today.
After a concert of his sometime around 1995, we talked about unsuspected music in the daily environment. Living next to a railway station at that time, I mentioned the distinct, suprisingly clean six note ton sequence of accelerating ICE highspeed trains.
But I never got to send him the tape I promissed and the "Concert for Five ICE Trains" will stay unwritten. Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet is a fine alternative.
Posted by b on December 8, 2007 at 01:45 PM | Permalink
because stockhausen helped us hear such songs can be sung
Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 8, 2007 9:19:40 PM | 3
the art of terror - the terror of art
Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 8, 2007 4:12:26 PM | 1